All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8

[debian/debian-policy.git] / policy.sgml

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 1a61d4f68a39d509e26eeb5aaa6e83ae3cbc8f1e..4fd60d909ecebd4653601bd57fefe098a5cbe656 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -9936,6 +9936,10 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
          <file>README.Debian</file> or some other appropriate place.
        </p>
 
+       <p>
+         All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8.
+       </p>
+
        <sect1 id="copyrightformat">
          <heading>Machine-readable copyright information</heading>